firefly101

Hello, Has anyone recently had success on steindrucker taking order or responding to Emails? I have known of several attempts and there is no response to email inquiries. Is he even still printing figure orders or is it the location that he is avoiding. I really think it would be more professional and polite to respond to email whether negative or positive for the project. I have also noticed several other print places that don't even bother to respond. A couple have which was nice. Is this common with no replies, I would be afraid to use Steindrucker website to order without first making contact if the project can be done and the amount of backlog before completion.

There is a new site I just found called mocbuilder It looks like its just started but it seems to be only for Lego, maybe this will workout. I think we should all support him, flickr has too much other junk on it imo.

Well check this xenomorph out from China, you can't beat the way it looks or the price! They have a Predator also! https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Single-Super-Hero-Movie-Series-Alien-vs-Predator-Godzilla-Giant-Monster-figure-building-blocks-model-bricks/32844780311.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.59.50f47812x2n3rt&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10152_10151_10065_10344_10130_10068_10324_10342_10547_10325_10546_10343_10340_10548_10341_10545_10696_10084_10083_10618_10307_10313_10059_10534_100031_10103_10624_10623_10622_10621_10620_10810_10811,searchweb201603_25,ppcSwitch_7&algo_expid=42bae932-1fe9-4db9-b3d2-6d0feab8e550-7&algo_pvid=42bae932-1fe9-4db9-b3d2-6d0feab8e550&priceBeautifyAB=0

Here is the Barding Sorry for the late reply

I personally would love to see a continuation of the Kingdoms theme, with the Black Falcons, Forestmen, wolfpack and Bulls making a return. I think a Nice well built classic Castle line would be a nice break from all this Super hero, comic book, fantasy stuff. Sometime its gotta to end....

Try AliExpress its like Ebay but only for China. You can get those Gamorreans for 60 cents each. That's how I done it.

Thanks, I like that Human Brick Model in your post! I was thinking of Wargs at first, but the Boars seem to fit so much better and are cheaper and not preformed. People forget Warg legs don't move either. lol

Lego doesn't seem to have much selection on Ball joint pieces. I thought of some other ways to make them movable, but none would look good because of the color or use of plates. Maybe later Lego will make pieces that could be used for legs or maybe someone here will play around and see if it can be improved on then post. Most of my Lego is for Building Castles bought on bricklink, so I don't have all those odd and end pieces. When I first seen this model a few months ago I thought it looked the most like a pig, but I felt it was too Blocky, the adjustments are to make it more realistic as is possible with bricks. lol I would love to see Lego make Brown tiles for the ears, I had to use Dark Orange and I had to use Old BROWN for some of the tiles, Lego never made those pieces in Reddish Brown. The cost for one of them on Bricklink for parts is about $6 if you use Black on a couple of those tiles its about $3.50 each Boar.

Hello, I came across as similar design that has been abandon for a while, it was made quite a few years ago and many new pieces are available. So I Decided to Improve upon the design and make the War Hog look better. I will include an old picture of the original looked like and of course the new version. I think the improvements are very good, I wanted to post this so Others can Enjoy this Warhog as the original had no details about the parts etc. I wanted to provide others details of the parts needed to make them. I have personally made 12 for my Orc Army. I hope others will enjoy the design. All the Gamorreans in my army are from CHINA and PG79 is the code I bought them on AliExpress. And while they are NOT lego quality, they are perfect for the amount of numbers I needed. They work very good for cheaper clones, but the quality is not the same and they use the same plastic for the hands. But I was surprised at how well these turned out they cost me around 60 cents each one! So I was able to make my Orc and Troll Army.

https://de-de.facebook.com/Steindrucker does a great job I had a pile of torsos made, but large orders are little more for him, so your smaller order should be perfect!

Problem with Paint is the smell and Flaking off. The only paint I found to work on anything is Duracoat and Automotive paint both expensive and would be hard to match the color. The eraser works pretty easy, you just keep rubbing and it removes it pretty quick, but it will take a while since its a big dragon. lol If the Head comes apart and is not glued It would make Removing the Silver easier even. I did think of your suggestion, but it has its own problems, I even thought of another head....

I modified through photoshop this picture to see what the head would look like if the Silver was removed, it doesn't look bad and probably would look better in person. One good thing is the armor can look like scale plates?

Hello, I ordered the Green Fantasy Dragon that has the Armor. Reason is I like Green dragons over red, mainly because that is what I think of when I think of what a Dragon would look like. But it has Armor on it. Now I noticed that the Armor on the head looks somewhat removable? It looks like the head is 3 Pieces minus the Jaw. The ball Joint the Back and front part of the head. I wonder what the from looks like without the armor on it? If bad my only option is to erase the Silver off of the armor and imagine they are hardened scales. lol Erasing seems to be easy using a polishing eraser from swords and knives. It does put a dull none shine on the plastic but does good atleast on the torsos I have done. Second question is the WINGS. Is the Gold actual plastic or is it painted on? That would help to find out if it can be removed or not. Last anyone know a good polishing method for Plastic after the Silk Screening is erased? I included a picture I got off the internet to show what I noticed. I original thought it was one piece but its obviously 2 pieces most likely die to the printing process of the eyes and the armor.

Personally I don't mind if he uses anything of mine, I think its good others get a chance to use them on their Legos. I don't think we should be too worried about property rights on Art for Lego unless we sell the stuff ourselves. I really would prefer someone to offer things like the stickers as it would have saved me a lot of money and time!

Here is the template for the Monk Torsos. They came out very well I think. [/img]

Here is a sample of the Monk print he is doing for me. It was very hard copying over the peasant image and cleaning it. lol

His print quality and color are excellent. Only issues are language since I had to use a translator. His machine and his quality is unmatched IMO. Otherwise I would not have sent those shields to him. Right now he is going to reprint and ship back at no charge for the few shields that had a mix up. One thing he does do, All torso's are done in thick bright print, but the shields he prints a little lighter, I believe this is done to save print material and makes the shields almost flat in print. But they are a little dull compared to Torso prints, this might be because of the Large order I had, but that is about the only complaint I have. I didn't make a big deal about it because they look fine. But apparently he printed 5 falcon shield with the thicker print and they had a brighter look because of it. Since he was printing a pearl gray shields it would make them seem Dull. I think its best to keep orders small, there is less room for error and to use only what he has in stock for parts, sending things to him causes issues with customs etc.

Thanks I will. :-)

Well I got the shields in, and they look great as always, but he forgot to remove the stickers off of some shields that I left as Demo's of the patterns I wanted on the shields. So I have 13 Shields with the stickers I had on them without him printing them. lol I think it was too big of an order, I used a translator and reconfirmed the translation back into english so its was just thinking he already printed them. Normally not a problem if it wasn't the cost of shipping and possible import fee again. So none of the 5 Templar shields I wanted printed got printed instead I got the same shields back with the stickers. lol I paid for some shields that didn't get printed. The money isn't the issue as much as not getting those shields for the project. I have no idea what happened, but I am thinking he MAY have thought he printed the others with stickers on them. I had 75 shields and got 75 back but 5 Black Falcon, 1 Red Lion, 1 Blue Lion, 1 Forest and 5 Templar shields were returned with the same sticker on them. lol Needless to say it bugged me since it cost me 20 euro to ship and 13.45 euro tax and 20 euro ship back. Hence why I tried to make the shipment count. 43.45 euros is about $52 USD just in customs and shipping which counters the good price of about $3 per torso and $1.65 per shield. I am trying to ask to find out what happened, as his printing and quality is great. Maybe a small padded envelope would be cheap enough to ship back to him and wait the month+ to get them back. lol

Yep that was me, cost me 13.50 euro's for something he wasn't keeping, I think thats crumby when its something being worked on, he isn't buying them for himself.

Steindrucker, Popmunkey is out because of Printer issues. I have to say Steindrucker's work is great, and the print is thin and has a lot of detail. I even had him reprint 5 forestmen because the ones Popmunkey did were not as good because of the printer they used. I believe their NEW printer will be the same as Steindruckers, but they are out for a year or so. About the only issue for me is the shipping its about $25 to ship to me and to ship to him and I got hit with a 13.50 euro customs fee which I think is stupid since he wasn't keeping the shields and was going to return them. But I never have been a fan of VAT. lol His work is great, he is professional, and always replies. This is my second time dealing with him and I have NO COMPLAINTS. I would do business again in a heartbeat, again the print is very thin but strong, and the detail is very nice!

Here is a fresh batch from him on some crests for shields and torso's. You can see they are very nicely done! http://tinypic.com/r/qq1i53/8

I'll upload the shield decals later so they can be printed for others

Here are some shields I am having printed, I have some other matching ones for the other torso's I have listed here. I wanted to get these done before Lego makes it impossible, anymore the way Lego has been heading Greed seems to be the main focus, Its not like I don't like all the new weapons etc. but Lego never use to promote violence like it does, and the marketing on films isn't a good sign. Though the pieces we get are nice! lol Now I have a kingdoms setup that Lego should have had when they made that line, seems like they never FINISH what they start.....

Wow I am glad he liked them, I was trying to match them that was the best out of all the Lego themes, with exception of the Black Falcons. lol I would have rather had them be the bed guys instead of Dragons all the time, they seem to be Dragon crazy at lego. lol He prints nice and his prices are good if you get enough to justify overseas shipping.